Kings of the Sun (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller
On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.
Starring: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse
Director: J. Lee Thompson
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer, René Enriquez, John Glover
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Western
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Keenan Wynn, Julie Newmar
Director: J. Lee Thompson
The White Buffalo (1977)
Western
In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations – dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country – before improbably teaming up with a young Indian named Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman
Director: J. Lee Thompson
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Tiger Bay (1959)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins, Anthony Dawson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
In the year 2670, an orangutan called the Lawgiver tells a story to a group of human and ape children about an early 21st century ape leader named Caesar.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, John Huston
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Action | Sci-Fi
1991. North America is a police state in which cats and dogs have been wiped out by a virus brought back from space by astronauts. Apes are imported from Africa and auctioned off as household pets and trained to perform menial tasks. A circus owner named Armando arrives in the city with a grown ape named Caesar. Eighteen years earlier, Armando had hidden the baby Caesar, whose parents were intelligent articulate apes who had traveled back from the 22nd century and were killed in an attempt to prevent future ape domination.
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes
Director: J. Lee Thompson
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Popular high school senior Virginia Wainwright survives a freak accident, but suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. As she attempts to resume a normal life, something terrible is happening – her friends are ruthlessly murdered one-by-one.
Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Lisa Langlois
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on…
Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane, Sharon Acker, Frances Hyland
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Drama | War
1942: The Libyan war zone, North Africa. After a German invasion a British ambulance crew are forced to evacuate their base but become separated from the rest of their unit. Somehow they must make it to Alexandria, but how? Their only hope is a dilapidated ambulance named "Katy" and an irrational, alchoholic soldier known as Captain Anson. Facing landmines, Nazi troops, spies and the merciless, scorching, brutal environment of the desert, can Captain Anson face his demons and make the road to hell a journey to freedom? Starring some of British cinemas most celebrated actors, John Mills (Great Expectations, Gandhi), Sylvia Syms (Ferry To Hong Kong, Shirley Valentine) and Harry Andrews (The Hill, Battle Of Britain), Ice Cold In Alex is an action packed and suspenseful wartime classic. Directed by John Lee Thompson, creator of Guns Of Navarone and Cape Fear, it's one of the most intensely gripping films ever made.
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare, Richard Leech
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown / Death Wish IV: The Crackdown (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P. Ryan, Perry Lopez, Soon-Tek Oh, Dana Barron
Director: J. Lee Thompson
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren
Director: J. Lee Thompson
